Yamaha YZF750R

rescued a 93 yzf 750 from the darkness of a garage and since fetching and mot passed with flying colours i cant keep off from riding it,i am 6ft 2 and it is really comfortable for short or long journeys,

It looks fantastic for an older sports classic and still gets a lot of admiration and comments (respected for its history and acheivements}.

This is a sports bike and was built to race and even though it is 18 years old it will still lick or keep with a lot of modern bikes.

I like how it rides smoothly yet passed 7000rpm watch out she will surprise you and make you respect how this bike was machined .

handling is fantastic as lets face it we are talking about the public road and this bike loves twistys and country roads in the speed limits .

pulls like atrain in every gear and sounds great and now i want to take mine to a trackday .

Because there are not as many about they do stand out from the crowd so if you see one give it a glance and respect it for what it is afterall it did win three superbike championships and is becoming a classic which is a badge well earned.

Also a minter will go up in value and for the money now you cant go wrong.

I found my YZF 750 more or less by accident when a friend of a friend had one for sale soon after I passed my test. First impressions were good as the bike happened to fit me perfectly, and although the build quality was nothing to rave about (ultra soft fairing bolts,spongy brakes etc), it was a good price so I went with it, safe in the knowledge I could improve it relatively cheaply.

After performing the compulsory R1 brake upgrade, I was able to ride the bike safely, and very quickly fell in love with the handling - the bike was very nearly as responsive in the corners as the RS125 I'd learnt on, so it certainly encouraged enthusiastic flicking in the twisties and a very rapid growth of confidence.

Overall, power delivery is nice, the EXUP valve gives a near linear run up to 8000 revs, with things going satisfyingly crazy above that. The brakes are superb, but that refers only to the R1 calipers I retro-fitted - the sumitomi 6 pot calipers fitted as standard are worthless in every way.

So the bad side...build quality. I appreciate that everything has to be built to a budget, so butter-steel fairing screws are not much of a surprise. However, if basically inept engineering is all you can afford, just don't bother; the bike is now scrap thanks to the destruction of the main drive shaft - Yamaha in their wisdom decided that 4 turns of a thread would secure a sprocket nut, and I can inform them (not that they don't know) that it really isn't. This is a common problem with R6/Thundercat/TDM and Fazers, Yamaha are simply completely incompetent engineers. As a result, not only would I not recommend this bike, I would never give garage space to anything designed by Yamaha